"A lot of dreams came to an end. You write about at 31 years old, in the sort of prime of your career, walking into an ER and begging for a hysterectomy because your endometriosis is so crippling."
"What was so beautiful was that I had (my mother) with me and I had her full support. And that made it so much clearer to me because this person who knows me and loves me went, 'You can't go on like this.'"
"In the moment, my pain was so overriding that I put those other thoughts aside and it was only in the aftermath of the surgery that I started to feel the weight of what had happened."
"The amazing thing is since then I have met so many people who have built their families in so many different ways, and I've really come to a place where I feel really excited."
Lena Dunham's memoir 'Famesick' reveals her struggles with motherhood and endometriosis. After a hysterectomy and the removal of an ovary, she reflects on lost dreams. Support from her mother helped her navigate the pain. Although she had envisioned motherhood as part of her identity, she remains open to alternative paths to parenthood. Now married to Luis Felber, Dunham expresses excitement about the various ways families can be formed.
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